Music in a major chord makes people buy more
than music in a minor chord?
The soundtrack to Into the Breach is more focused, more intense, and less ambient
than the music in FTL, which fits the game's mix of scales: it's a game about giant fighting robots, but it's also a game about single - screen tactics with a squad of only three fighters.
Not exact matches
For evidence of artists who've been able to maintain their credibility while licensing their
music for commercials, you might look no further
than a certain Canadian songstress who got a «big break» when her song was featured
in an iPod commercial
in 2007:
Running speed was reduced for both groups of phone users
in comparison to non-users, while subjects who used their phones for solely
music performed at a higher speed and intensity
than any of the other groups.
The Mannix brothers share many things with their father (Fred Charles Mannix) and grandfather (Fred Stephen Mannix), whose empires they inherited: their names, obviously, but also their sharp business acumen, quiet - but - aggressive approaches to philanthropy (Calgary's brand new National
Music Centre — which houses Canada's
Music Hall of Fame — came to being thanks to more
than $ 10 million
in donations from the Mannix family business; the company also contributed $ 1 million to the National Gallery of Canada
in 2015) and steadfast commitment to privacy.
Amazon
Music, the No. 3 player in the global streaming music outside China, does not disclose exact figures, but reported last week it had «tens of millions of paid customers» and that subscriptions grew more than 100 percent in the last six mo
Music, the No. 3 player
in the global streaming
music outside China, does not disclose exact figures, but reported last week it had «tens of millions of paid customers» and that subscriptions grew more than 100 percent in the last six mo
music outside China, does not disclose exact figures, but reported last week it had «tens of millions of paid customers» and that subscriptions grew more
than 100 percent
in the last six months.
There are more
than 102 million households with cable subscriptions
in the U.S., he says, and Stingray's core
music channels are only available
in seven million of them, through an agreement with AT&T.
More
than 85 % of the revenue it takes
in goes to
music licensing costs.
Would you be interested
in a new product that wakes you
in a way other
than a loud buzz, ring or radio
music?
Examining modern campaign politics, the open - source movement and some of the few recent bright spots
in the traditional
music business, Benkler isolates a handful of «design levers» — «elements of successful cooperative human systems that we can employ to motivate [people]... to contribute to the collective effort rather
than exclusively pursue their own interests (at the expense of those of the group).»
Well, the economics of
music production today are far healthier
than they ever were
in Virgin's heyday as a
music company.
The event, now
in its 27th year, is one of the city's largest — more
than 170,000 people pile into the growing desert locale to make deals, listen to copious amounts of
music and explore this always - active college town.
Fast - forward a few decades, and the likes of Microsoft's Xbox 360, the Sony PS3 and Nintendo's Wii have put consoles
in one of every two homes
in the U.S. and helped make video games a bigger business
than the entire
music industry — and almost as big as the movie industry.
Canadian rock icon Neil Young's Pono digital
music device has garnered rave reviews since a high - profile launch at the South by Southwest Festival
in Austin, TX, last week, and more
than doubled its fundraising goal of US$ 800,000 on Kickstarter.
Sprint will automatically degrade the quality of video and
music streaming, and a customer's download speed can be dramatically slowed if they use more
than 23 GB of data
in a single month.
Poleman is the head of programming for iHeartMedia, the radio giant that operates more
than 850 stations, including New York's Z100, where Poleman has had a hand
in the day - to - day
music decisions since 1996.
Spotify, the Swedish
music streaming service and Apple Music's biggest competitor, now has more than 28 million paying subscribers and is on track to reach 30 million in the next three months, according to a report from the Financial Times, citing anonymous sou
music streaming service and Apple
Music's biggest competitor, now has more than 28 million paying subscribers and is on track to reach 30 million in the next three months, according to a report from the Financial Times, citing anonymous sou
Music's biggest competitor, now has more
than 28 million paying subscribers and is on track to reach 30 million
in the next three months, according to a report from the Financial Times, citing anonymous sources.
Digital
music subscription income
in China is projected to more
than double from $ 318 million
in 2016 to over 746 million
in 2018, Reuters reports.
The kicker
in my situation, and probably for many people, is that I'm actually paying more for
music now
than I ever did.
They had apps to design, videos to compile,
music to make — and the ability to see wider potential
in any given object
than their parents.
He was considered the most successful
music producer ever, cited
in the Guinness Book of Records for having more
than 50 number - one hit records over five decades
in the United States and Britain alone...
«
In fact, only three online purchase categories are driven more by men
than women:
music, auctions, and computer hardware.
Stanford is the most selective college
in the US — aside from the Curtis Institute of
Music in Philadelphia, which has an acceptance rate of about 4 % but is more of a conservatory
than a traditional university.
Looking out on the next decade, Jobs may well be asking himself a variation of that very question: After creating more
than $ 150 billion
in shareholder wealth, transforming movies, telecom,
music, and computing (and profoundly influencing the worlds of retail and design), what should Steve Jobs do next?
While no study is going to find you can master Beethoven or calculus by kicking back with your feet up all the time (sorry), new research is finding that rest plays a larger role
in memory
than your nagging mother or exasperated
music teacher ever imagined.
Adele just posted the sort of success the
music biz hasn't seen
in more
than a decade.
However, at the global level Spotify has almost twice as many paid subscribers as Apple
Music does, despite the fact that Apple's service comes preloaded on all iOS devices, and Apple's presence
in more markets
than Spotify (115 territories to 61.)
Live Nation Entertainment, which merged with Ticketmaster
in 2010, is
in a great position to capitalize on this trend as it owns or controls more
than 100 of the most popular
music venues
in the country and gets a cut of ticketing fees to boot.
Apple
Music may soon have more paid subscribers
in the U.S.
than Spotify does, according to industry sources cited by The Wall Street Journal.
Despite the TV industry's perception that it is at the top of the entertainment food chain, at some point the impact of this shift becomes inescapable, just as newspaper and
music companies eventually had to admit that the shifts they were seeing
in consumer and advertising behavior were more
than just a speed bump.
In less
than two years, Reisman's Indigo Books &
Music turned an initial $ 31.6 million investment to start e-reader and e-book retailer Kobo into $ 165 million when it sold the startup to Japanese e-commerce giant Rakutan for $ 315 million late last year.
More
than 85 % of the company's revenue goes out the door
in the form of copyright payments, and the
music industry is still complaining that it's not enough.
The company, which filed its plans to go public on Wednesday, said it has paid more
than $ 9.7 billion
in royalties to artists,
music labels and publishers since it launched
in 2006.
A $ 10,000 investment
in Netflix's 2002 initial public stock offering would now be worth more
than $ 2.6 million, leaving some investors wondering if Spotify might be on a similar trajectory
in music streaming.
Apple's iOS operating system is better
than Android,
in my opinion (I also own an iPhone 7 Plus), and the iPhone maker's services integration that lets users access photos,
music, and other content from a range of devices is outstanding.
The 2015 paper, published
in the journal PNAS, suggests that Facebook «likes» can reveal more about people
than just interest and
music, movie, book, and sports preferences.
Rather
than pour money into advertising, we invest
in sports and
music and entertainment, sponsoring
music festivals and events
in our core sports — surfing, skateboarding, BMX biking, and snowboarding — all closely related to the Southern California lifestyle.
While the Bronfman family dramas have been wellcovered
in other books and
in the Canadian press — this magazine is among the book's sources — Goodman understands the
music business better
than any of the family's other chroniclers.
Within the next five years, revenue from live
music «will more
than offset» the drop
in record sales since 2008, according to a PwC study.
The little vulgar newsshoprint freebie that started
in Montreal back
in 1994 now has more
than 800 full - time employees
in 34 countries making books, films, video, magazines, events and
music, all funded through partnerships with some of the globe's biggest brands.
Swift has said she believes that if there is a high demand for certain
music, it should be more expensive
than other
music: «I think that people should feel that there is a value to what musicians have created, and that's that,» Swift told Time
in 2014.
According to Borchetta, the actual amount his label has received
in return for domestic streams of Swift's
music — $ 496,044 — is drastically smaller
than the amount Spotify has suggested the artist receives.
It turned out that our customers welcomed the changes that we were making, like inviting
music lovers to spend hours
in our record shops, hanging out and talking about
music, rather
than pushing them to make their purchases and get out.
As I noted
in my commentary accompanying the RIAA data, the
music industry has successfully adapted to the constantly changing
music marketplace, up almost 1 % at retail and wholesale, and I am more optimistic
than ever about the future of the
music industry.
He was determined that the R. Kelly the world would know — the one who would sell more
than 30 million albums, have 36 Billboard Hot 100 hits, invent his own strange musical language, write hits for countless others, and conceive one of the weirdest syntheses of video and
music of all time, Trapped
in the Closet — would be someone else.
Spotify, launched
in 2008 and available
in more
than 60 countries, is the biggest
music streaming company
in the world and counts services from Apple Inc (AAPL.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Alphabet Inc's < GOOGL.O > Google as its main rivals.
So for a customer
in Italy, Napster's editorial teams will recommend
music that's most relevant
in that region, which will be different
than the
music served up
in Germany.
Mr. Sacconaghi of Sanford C. Bernstein noted that if Apple's streaming
music service were to make as much money as, say, Pandora, which generates roughly $ 1 billion
in revenue a year, that amount would be only slightly more
than half of 1 percent of Apple's annual $ 183 billion
in revenue.
But keeping an internet - connected microphone
in your kitchen is certainly more trouble
than owning a simple Bluetooth speaker that just plays
music.
Spotify, launched
in 2008 and available
in more
than 60 countries, is the biggest
music streaming company
in the world and counts services from Apple (AAPL.O), Amazon (AMZN.O) and Alphabet's < GOOGL.O > Google as its main rivals.